Winding gear

It is really within the life-times of most of us that the people who were first commandeered for war-time service in a satanic pit had the ignominy of being satanised for standing up for the communities whose Only means of economic sustenance was to 'go dahn pit' with everything that entailed. Predictably, every effort to forget this ever happened - and 30 years ago came to a head in a Miners' Strike - becomes another scandalised subjection of the working man to be ignored - and maybe it will go away. So the winding house at Bestwood is a museum piece - and no one need consider the realities of those times - ever again?